DICHOTOMY BETWEEN DISSIMILAR IDEOLOGIES IN RUTH JHABVALA’S GET READY FOR BATTLE
Index Terms - Dichotomy, hypocrisy, exploitation, materialistic, misunderstanding, incompatibility, ideological differences, power-base or money-making, clash.
Abstract - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has achieved international reputation as the most popular novelist of social and economic problems of the present century. She writes about possibly the only social segment of urban India that she knows at first hand. Her distinction is modified and narrowed down by the rather limited quality of her literary achievement, which is, in part, the inevitable result of her choice and in part, the artistic outcome of her creativity. It lies in her being intensely aware of her limitations. Such fundamental and basic values of life as love, justice, beauty, sympathy, honesty, humbleness and equality receded into the background and man had become the greatest enemy of man. Jhabvala’s Get Ready for Battle (1962) is concerned with Indian social and domestic problems. The novel condemns dishonesty, hypocrisy and exploitation of the poor. The novel deals with the materialistic society and its corrupt values, which make the life of the poor miserable and hard. The paper focuses on the sense of misunderstanding and incompatibility which has taken a serious turn due to the ideological differences between Gulzari Lal and his wife, Sarla Devi. Both are totally different by nature. Gulzari Lal and Sarla Devi belong to two entirely different worlds. She cares least for worldly prosperity whereas Gulzari Lal is a materialist to the core. Sarla Devi is engaged in fighting for the rights of the poor people of Bundi Busti against Government and moneyed people like her husband Gulzari Lal and son Vishnu who always concerned about their power-base or money-making. Thus, one is materialistic and the other is idealistic. All these lead to clash between husband and wife.
"DICHOTOMY BETWEEN DISSIMILAR IDEOLOGIES IN RUTH JHABVALA’S GET READY FOR BATTLE", TIJER - TIJER - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL (www.TIJER.org), ISSN:2349-9249, Vol.11, Issue 2, page no.a676-a677, February-2024, Available :https://tijer.org/TIJER/papers/TIJER2402083.pdf
Volume 11
Issue 2,
February-2024
Pages : a676-a677
Paper Reg. ID: TIJER_151327
Published Paper Id: TIJER2402083
Downloads: 000305
Research Area: Languages
Country: Bagasara/Amreli, Gujarat, India
DOI: http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.38039
ISSN: 2349-9249 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.57 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2014
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